Re: [PATCH v3 12/19] mm: memcg/slab: use a single set of kmem_caches for all accounted allocations

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 4/22/20 10:47 PM, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> This is fairly big but mostly red patch, which makes all accounted
> slab allocations use a single set of kmem_caches instead of
> creating a separate set for each memory cgroup.
> 
> Because the number of non-root kmem_caches is now capped by the number
> of root kmem_caches, there is no need to shrink or destroy them
> prematurely. They can be perfectly destroyed together with their
> root counterparts. This allows to dramatically simplify the
> management of non-root kmem_caches and delete a ton of code.
> 
> This patch performs the following changes:
> 1) introduces memcg_params.memcg_cache pointer to represent the
>    kmem_cache which will be used for all non-root allocations
> 2) reuses the existing memcg kmem_cache creation mechanism
>    to create memcg kmem_cache on the first allocation attempt
> 3) memcg kmem_caches are named <kmemcache_name>-memcg,
>    e.g. dentry-memcg
> 4) simplifies memcg_kmem_get_cache() to just return memcg kmem_cache
>    or schedule it's creation and return the root cache
> 5) removes almost all non-root kmem_cache management code
>    (separate refcounter, reparenting, shrinking, etc)
> 6) makes slab debugfs to display root_mem_cgroup css id and never
>    show :dead and :deact flags in the memcg_slabinfo attribute.
> 
> Following patches in the series will simplify the kmem_cache creation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/memcontrol.h |   5 +-
>  include/linux/slab.h       |   5 +-
>  mm/memcontrol.c            | 163 +++-----------
>  mm/slab.c                  |  16 +-
>  mm/slab.h                  | 145 ++++---------
>  mm/slab_common.c           | 426 ++++---------------------------------
>  mm/slub.c                  |  38 +---
>  7 files changed, 128 insertions(+), 670 deletions(-)

Nice stats.

Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

> @@ -548,17 +502,14 @@ static __always_inline int charge_slab_page(struct page *page,
>  					    gfp_t gfp, int order,
>  					    struct kmem_cache *s)
>  {
> -#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM

Ah, indeed. Still, less churn if ref manipulation was done in
memcg_alloc/free_page_obj() ?

>  	if (!is_root_cache(s)) {
>  		int ret;
>  
>  		ret = memcg_alloc_page_obj_cgroups(page, gfp, objs_per_slab(s));
>  		if (ret)
>  			return ret;
> -
> -		percpu_ref_get_many(&s->memcg_params.refcnt, 1 << order);
>  	}
> -#endif
> +
>  	mod_node_page_state(page_pgdat(page), cache_vmstat_idx(s),
>  			    PAGE_SIZE << order);
>  	return 0;